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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of South Holland District Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official South Holland website
37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 6 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 8 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Northgate Mill Northgate Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Jun 1996Cradge Bank Spalding
Received 17 Mar 2003SUNNYLEA BARN NEW ROAD QUADRING EAUDIKE SPALDING PE11 4QB
Received 13 Jul 2021The Lodge Serpentine House Barrington Gate Holbeach PE12 7LB
Received 5 Apr 200424 CROWN AVENUE HOLBEACH ST MARKS SPALDING PE12 8EU
Received 22 Dec 2016adj. 191 Westhorpe Road Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 29 Jul 1992Aswick Grange Whaplode Drove Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Dec 1997Plot B Adjacent Hawthorns Northgate Pinchbeck
Received 20 Dec 2004The Ship Inn, Northgate Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Jun 2000A151/16 Spalding By Pass Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 9 Nov 1998HALL MARSH HOUSE 54 LITTLE LONDON LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9LE
Received 14 May 201924 Bowgate Gosberton Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 15 Oct 1999Church Way Tydd St Mary Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Jul 1995Gable End Farm Gedney Marsh Spalding Lincs PE12 9PA
Received 30 Dec 2011High Field Farm Damgate Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 8PB
Received 18 Nov 2003Barrier Bank Business Park Land North & South of Barrier Bank (B1173) and North West of A1175 & A16 South of Spalding
Received 28 Jul 2016The Crown and Woolpack 7 High Street Long Sutton
Received 24 Aug 2007Green Lane Donington Wykes Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Nov 1993Rear of 137 London Road and Adj. 4 & 4A Town End Manor Spalding
Received 24 May 2021Parsons Yard Middle Drove Gedney Spalding PE12 0AU
Received 15 Nov 20224 Chestnut Avenue Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4XN
Received 25 May 2004Land rear 2 Wharf Street Sutton Bridge
Received 25 Jul 2008The Dormers 25 Market Way Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3PE
Received 5 Oct 201017 Franklin Drive Spalding Lincs PE11 2GF
Received 31 Jul 2007Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for South Holland District Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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